Think you’re compliant? Corrupt metadata could land you in jail
"The amount of data that companies must store is growing at an enormous pace as regulations including Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, SEC 17a-4, and the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure —to name just a few—place an increasing burden on enterprise storage, backup and recovery needs. Fail to protect information in a recoverable state, and company officers face fines, other penalties and even jail time.
Matters are made more complex when enterprise content management (ECM) systems are in use. The benefits of ECM - workflow, collaboration, and integrated management of information assets - bring an extra level of responsibility when it comes to protecting the content and metadata within them. That extra level of care required primarily relates to ECM metadata –audit trails, digital signatures, workflows, renditions and other “data about data,” which must be backed up with the content it supports in a synchronous manner to ensure full recoverability and compliance with regulatory mandates."
Matters are made more complex when enterprise content management (ECM) systems are in use. The benefits of ECM - workflow, collaboration, and integrated management of information assets - bring an extra level of responsibility when it comes to protecting the content and metadata within them. That extra level of care required primarily relates to ECM metadata –audit trails, digital signatures, workflows, renditions and other “data about data,” which must be backed up with the content it supports in a synchronous manner to ensure full recoverability and compliance with regulatory mandates."
